PAK teachers recently hosted a winter wonderland where students had some fun indoor wintry activities while doing math, spelling, matching and much more! They matched math facts with paper snow shoes on and hopped on letters and had to come up with words that start or end with those letters – like qu, ck, ch, …
The holidays are over but we just have to showcase the incredibly beautiful work done by our high school students in Leeann Noonan’s Family and Consumer Science classes. These bakers and creators made gingerbread from scratch, cut out their building elements with precision and decorated them so creatively. Along the way, they worked in groups …
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Members of the Pine Bush High School Youth in Government organization were chosen to participate in the Wreaths Across America ceremony in Goshen, at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Students Kyle O’Brien and Riley Kool, along with their Youth in Government adviser Charlene Webster, participated in the wreath-laying ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17. “It …
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Anna-Marissa Estep began her tenure as assistant principal at Pine Bush High School this week. Her road in education started with a passion. As a mom raising her four children, Ms. Estep was a constant volunteer presence in her children’s schools. It was there that she was moved to teach, following in her mother’s footsteps. …
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Stacey Venzel and Jessica Fobert’s fourth-grade students at PBE spent a week before the winter break building wigwams and longhouses in villages that represented the environments of the Algonquins and Iroquois, two Native American tribes that battled for territory in New York. For this social studies STEM project, students included rivers and farmland in their …
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Happy New Year CVMS family! Check out all that’s happening at CVMS for the months of January and February.
Happy New Year everyone! Check out the January newsletter for all the important Crispell information for the month.
Students in Leilah Austin-Draitser’s fifth-grade class at PBE delved into biographies of many historical and popular figures recently. They learned of the discipline and nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi, the trailblazing of Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart, the bravery of Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Malala Yousafzai, the brilliance of Albert Einstein, …
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There is so much we all have in common. When we look at our holiday traditions, we can see many similarities. Pre-K students in Kathleen Murray’s class at Circleville Elementary School did just that over the past few weeks. They learned how light is an integral part of many holiday traditions. Ms. Murray read the …
Third grade students in Emily Byrne’s class at Pakanasink recently did a project emphasizing the positivity project theme of teamwork. Each team was tasked with stacking their cups in a pyramid form. There was a catch – they could only use string and a rubber band. Their hands were not allowed to touch the cups. …
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